Twitter usernames are still limited to under 15 characters
Twitter let me sign up using the name @christiannnotebook but then automatically shortened it to @christiannoteb2 without me knowing during the signup process.
Keeping a development diary for each project
Do you ever use Markdown? In the past 2.5 years since I’ve been doing development work at Tribune, I keep a running log/diary/scratchpad of the …
Funny story about my 5-year-old coworker
During a weekly project call on Monday, our developer asked about a particular feature on the wireframes I designed. The feature is on the existing …
Google finally eliminates email subscriptions from Feedburner
Today Google sent me a reminder email that they will be eliminating email subscriptions from Feedburner. Once upon a time I used Feedburner to send …
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Ad blockers
I installed an ad blocker to block the tracking scripts on baseball-reference.com. Every time I visit that site, my computer’s fans would spin up crazy. …
Being a designer is empowering
One of the things I love about being a designer is being able to simply do things myself. I wanted to try some graph paper. …
My first Stack Overflow answer
For years I have been a lurker on Stack Overflow. I often hit up the site for answers. I couldn’t upvote anything, because I never …
Pinterest is all about ideas, creating… and making your next purchase? What?
How to destroy a good ad.
Forget titles, blog excerpts are what gets me to click
Everyone focuses on headlines. Optimize the headline! Make it enticing! Make it SEO friendly! But what often gets me to click is actually the excerpt. …
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A workaround in Facebook to use lists again
Facebook has slowly been killing a long-time efficient feature, lists. Now with the updated Pages UI, you kinda have some of the functionality of lists back.
